A detailed sea chart of the environs of Waitangi in New Zealand

DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore.

Carte de la Baie des Iles (Nouvelle Zélande) Leve´ par MM. B¯¯e´rard, De Blois et De Blosseville, Officiers de la Marine. Expe´dition de la Corvette de S.M. la Coquille Commande´e par M.L.I. Duperrey, Capitaine de Frigate (Avril 1824).
Paris: Firmin Didot for Arthus Bertrand, 1827-9. Sheet 560 x 800mm.

A large and detailed old seachart of the southern section of the Bay of Islands, with Waitangi (marked 'District d'Hoshi') and Paihia ('Payéha'. It was surveyed by officers of the French expedition led by Louis-Isidore Duperrey, which circumnavigated the world, spending two weeks in the Bay of Islands.
The chart was engraved by Ambroise Tardieu and published as plate 19 of 'Voyage autour du Monde, execute´ par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majeste´, la Coquille, pendant les anne´es 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825'.


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